Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-03
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE.
TWENTY SEVENTH sESs FIFTY.
NINTH DAY.
SENATE.

SENATE.
WEDNESDAY March ID
Inc senate me al 10 O'Clock \. ", the Presi
| dent in the chair
The special order. the dcbris-dam bin. was the
| hTSt business in order and considerable time
| was lost III securing fun attendance of Sena
tors under call of the Senate. Finally at II 40
| on motion OF Clunie, further pTOce sdingS under
! the call We're dispensed with,
Clunie thcu moved that the roll be cnlied on
| the iinai passage of the bill.
Dfay opposed the motion, speaking follows:
SPEECH OF SENATOR DRAY.
Nr; President: rise for the purpose Of asking
| thiS senate why vote should be taken upon
ms Dill without anything more having to be
SAID upon its merits I wish to say Mr.
! President, that one of my first acts as II boy
| upon my arrival here was 10 20 to the mouth OF
the American river. which was at the northwest
corner OF the city, and there prove TO myself
that the!e was such thing as the rise and fail
OF tide in running river. had never seen
the ocean, and went down there dHx after day
ior week The Sacramento river at time was
from sO TO 800 feet wide, running clear beautiful
mountain water thirty feet deep. In the mouth
OF the American there lay at anchor one of the
largest class OF merchant ships that had come
around Cape Horn within thirty feet OF where
measured the rise and fall of the tide, which
lCUnd to be twelve inches. Along the Sscra-
mento river front lay at anchor large number
OF ships that had sailed from Boston and New
say. senators that riglt eos, or,,s in. Amor
lean river rises aud ri,,It lIrn tba lnta or tnt
river is built This civ and On which This Lni
in n has iby; , I|bs U t t1,IS o,b bu, ~ "a
middle and the sCIIth fIrl--tfat rise. in b vr,
heads Of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and
winch waters in flood time reach this city in
fourteen hours. And by this bill it is proposed
that the class of men known in this ctate as
miners shall build dams to l4old back what
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